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Sleeve Button.

No. 238,772. Patented March 15,1881.

WITNESS-ES;

@gw M7 NJETEHS. PHOTOL1YHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

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lUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS W. FEELEY, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

SLEEVE-BUTToN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,772, dated March 15, 1881.

Application led January 8, 1881.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS W. FEELEY, ot' the city and county of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sleeve-Buttons and Studs; and I declare the following to be a specification thereof', reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Like letters indicate like parts.

Figure l is a vertical section of my invention on the line z z, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a vertical section upon the line x a', Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a plan view ot' the back ofthe button. Fig. 4 is a perspective view ot' the shoe and shank.

My invention is especially adapted to separable sleeve-buttons, but may be used in the construction ot'collar-luittons and studs.

It consists in the construction and arrangement ot parts, as hereinafter more fully described, and specitically pointed out in the claims.

The button A has a flange, n, extending` around it, and upon its reverse side a boxlike case, consisting ot' the plate B and the side pieces, O O, extends diauietrically across from side to side. This case contains the bowspring D. The plate B has a longitudinal slot, b,extending frein one end sufficiently far along its central line to receive the shank in its desired position. From the slot b, from one side thereof, and opening into it near its outward end, is a small slot, c, at a right angle thereto, and at a point a little beyond the inner end of the slot b is a slot, d, extending from the central line ofthe plate B outwardly in a d1rection from said line opposite to the direction ofthe slot c. A slot, e, is made through the i'lange a, in connection with the open end of the slot b.

The shoe E has a shank, F, bearing a bar, G, the ends ot' which, projecting beyond the edge ot' the bar, are formed into catchesff', bent inwardly at right angles and each halt' as wide as the bar G, the one projecting at the right-hand side of the bar and the other at the left. The distance between these catches and the respective edges of the shank should be exactly equal to the distance between the slot d and the inner end of the slot b.

To unite the two parts of the button, I insert the shank F into the slot e ot' the tlange a and slide it along the slot b of the plate (Model.)

B. The eatchf, moving along the under side ot' the plate B, depresses the'spring D, as shown by dotted lilies in Fig. 2, and the bar G of the shank F slides freely until the inner or advancing edge ot' the shank has reached the inner end of the slot b, when the catches ff' are opposite the slots rl c, respectively, whereupon they are crowded into said slots, and held there by the pressure ot' the spring D. To separate the two parts ot' this button the shoe is depressed, disengaging the catches from their slots and crowding down the spring D, while the bar G is withdrawn and the shank F slides outwardly from the slot b.

I prefer to use the double catches ff', because when either, for any cause, is disengaged from its slot by an unequal pressure upon the shoe, the other will hold the more lirlnly, and so secure the parts from separation, and the parts can be separated only as desired by a direct pressure, disengaging both. catches at the same time, followed by a sliding motion to withdraw the shank from its confining-slot.

Other forms of springs than that shown may be used; but I prefer the bow-spring, not only because it is cheaper, but because its peculiar shape gives ample space at the entrance of the slots l) c to receive the shank, bar, and catches, and presents a grad uall y-inclining surface to receive the pressure as the shank and bar advance along the slot b.

I therefore claim as a useful and novel invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A separable button consisting of a button-front having one or more catch-slots, and a longitudinal diainetrical slot opening at and through the button liange, and a shoe the shank whereof is adapted to slide in and along such longitudinal slot, and having catches to engage with said catch-slots bythe pressure ot' a spring, substantially as described.

2. The button-front A, having a tlange, a, slotted at e, and the case B O G, having the slots b c d, in combination with the spring D, shoe E, shank F, and catch-bar G, having the catches j' f', all arr-an ged and operating substantially as specitied.

THOMAS W. FEELEY.

Witnesses:

EUGENE B. FLOYD, GHAS. A. WILSON.

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